Downloading English (India) Waiting for WiFi: Remove from Notification Bar

Ever encountered with “Downloading English (India) – Waiting for Wi-Fi” notification on your Redmi phones? I know the pain! It just doesn’t go by simply swiping right from the notification bar. I had the same issue on my Redmi 3S Prime and I came to know that this particular issue is common with most of the Redmi phones including Redmi Note 3, Note 4, 3S Prime etc.

By the way, it should not be confused with the “Female for English India (Waiting for WiFi)” notification. I shared the solution for that issue here:

Though both of this notification looks same, the root cause is different. Downloading English (India) comes from an interrupted download of Google Voice Typing where the Female for English (India) is shown because of an issue with the Text-to-speech Output. In both cases, the solution is quite simple. But finding, from where does it comes, is the key.

However, in this tutorial, I will help you easily remove the Downloading English (India) – Waiting for Wi-Fi from the notification bar. Please note that I live in India and chose Indian accent under language settings. If you live in the US, the notification changes to Downloading English (US), and so on, respectively.

How to Remove “Downloading English (India) Waiting for WiFi” from Notification Bar

First of all, open Settings> Additional Settings> Language & input menu. Then follow the below instructions exactly as mentioned.

On the next screen, you could see the interrupted/waiting language packs. As long as it stays there, you keep getting the “Downloading English (India) Waiting for WiFi” notification. Cancel/stop the currently downloading language pack under “Installed” tab. Then choose the Auto-update option.

We have to manually download the language pack from there. But by default, it doesn’t download such files over mobile data. Which means, we’ve to change the download preference. For this, under the Auto-Update tab, choose the second option. i.e., “Auto-update language at any time. Data charges may apply.“

Now head on to the “All” tab (located in the middle) and from there, you could see the entire list of languages which can be downloaded.

Tap on English (India) or whatever, according to your locale.

Once you click on the language option, the download will be started and the corresponding notification will be removed permanently from the notification bar.

Optional: Reboot the device once the installation is completed.

Though it isn’t necessary to reboot the device, it helps remove the cache files. The “Downloading English (India) Waiting for WiFi” notification won’t be appearing again in the notification panel of your Redmi phone after performing the aforementioned procedure. In case if it still shows the notification, Go to Settings>Installed apps>All>Download Manager>Clear data.

This workaround has been personally tried on my Redmi 3S Prime which runs on MIUI 8.2.4.0 Global Stable ROM and will work on all devices, including MIUI 7. If you’re having difficulties while removing Downloading English (India) Waiting for Wi-Fi from the notification bar by following this guide, let me know via comments.

shubham anand

Mritunjay Chandra

Same here. It didn’t worked for me. In my case installed section already had English(India) downloaded, there is only one option nd that is to uninstall it. In ‘All’section there is no language which is being downloaded or stopped due to some reason. Then also this notification keeps on popping.

Mritunjay Chandra

Same here. There is nothing being downloaded in ‘All’ section. And in “Installed” section English (India) is already downloaded. And Auto-Update is set to second option (Auto-Update at any time). But still this notification keeps on popping.

arun

arun

Sorry but did not work for me. I had to go to the Settings>Installed apps>All and open the Download Manager app info and clear the data cache and reboot to stop this bugging notification. I also disabled the auto installation of data and use wi-fi option.

Krishna Yadav

Dhairav Ajmera

Tayu

Ajo k john

You will have to connect the mobile phone to a wifi network.Then it will download the “english india”automatically.Whenever the download is finished the problem will not arise at all.this problem will be solved only by this method.Worked for me,its okay

Dhruv

DEEPAK N

Thanks bro !👍 if you have noticed there is one more flaw in 3s prime, when u connect it with mi speakers, u cant reduce the volume to zero, it goes full volume at zero.. also after downloading an update you cant delete it to clear space, and the keyboard keeps crashing on almost all apps..i have seen many problems online regarding this phone, 3s prime is the most flawed model of xiaomi.. i am stuck with one!

Using HTC desire-628 and your trick worked.keep up the good word and I hope u could help me with a problem.somehow I feel that I have some app that could be having a virus.how to detect and remove without doing a hard reset.